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April 18, 2008
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The raunchy, rueful 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' mines 'Virgin' territory.
By Carina Chocano
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By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
'The Life Before Her Eyes' dreamily shifts in time, but doesn't delve deeply into characters.
April 11, 2008
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The film is the kind of observational comedy that should be enjoyed while there's still a chance.
By Carina Chocano
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In 'Visitor,' friendship inspires liberty and a quest for justice.
By Carina Chocano
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Documentary follows the lives of some men and women over a four-year period.
April 8, 2008
By Carina Chocano
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
April 4, 2008
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
George Clooney and Renée Zellweger are a potent 1-2 punch.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Norah Jones sleepwalks through Wong Kar Wai's first English-language film.
March 28, 2008
By Carina Chocano
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March 14, 2008
By Carina Chocano
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By Carina Chocano
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By Carina Chocano
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March 7, 2008
By Carina Chocano
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This twist on the tryst fails to engage.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Frances McDormand and Amy Adams charm in the light, fun romantic fantasy.
February 29, 2008
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A documentary with style makes a case for the 1969-70 conspiracy trial defendants.
By Carina Chocano
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In this German film, the lives of three women intersect on a fateful night.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The luminous father-son tale, set in the Australian bush, transcends the dark times.
February 24, 2008
By Carina Chocano
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:
The hopefuls mostly follow a safe, bland pattern. But don't blame the actresses -- blame the vanilla roles. A villain or two or some inner conflict would have been nice.
February 15, 2008
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The media have deadened society. The undead are just cleaning up.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
André Téchiné tells the story of five closely intertwined but deeply isolated characters living in Paris at the dawn of the AIDS crisis.
February 14, 2008
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Director Mark Waters goes easy on the pixie dust and ratchets up the action in an effort to keep the fantasy fresh.
December 28, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The chain saws are set aside so the film can tap into what we find truly horrifying.
December 25, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The adapted graphic novel shows Marjane Satrapi's life in, and after, Iran
November 21, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Todd Haynes' film takes a fractured look at the singer's life and deconstructs biopics in the process.
November 14, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
'Southland Tales' is a political farce, a doomsday chiller and a paranoid fantasy that heads messily toward the apocalypse.
November 2, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Jerry Seinfeld wrote and voices the lead character, but there's not much at stake. Although the jokes are funny.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In the latest from the 83-year-old director, things go horribly wrong, exactly as planned.
October 19, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The star-filled political drama has few surprises but gives everyone a chance to shine.
October 12, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Elizabeth I morphs into some kind of 16th-century Michael Corleone to keep her throne.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The remake of the 1972 film benefits from an updated script by Harold Pinter and pitch-perfect performances by Michael Caine and Jude Law.
October 5, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The Farrelly Brothers' remake of Neil Simon's comedy has none of the charm of the original, and the body function jokes are the most touching parts.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The film about three brothers in the wake of their dad's death is a pleasurable journey to nowhere, but it's worth the ride.
September 28, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Robert Benton's film about love and loss is free of catharsis and is neither funny nor sad.
September 21, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Gothic horror rises in the Arctic
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Robin Swicord's first feature, with Maria Bello and Emily Blunt, is a clever look at modern life and love.
September 14, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In David Cronenberg's London-set thriller, evil must be battled, often with evil.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A young girl is caught in the swirl of '70s politics in Julie Gavras' assured directorial debut, 'Blame It on Fidel.'
September 7, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Black comedy turns preachy in a somewhat-true story of journalists who are out to get a Balkan war criminal.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Spirit of J.D. Salinger hangs heavy in the French film about two brothers exploring love and loss ad nauseam.
August 31, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Reality? Or fantasy? 'The Nines' blurs the lines
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The film gives an intimate portrait of a complex 30-year relationship and shows a side of Latin America rarely seen in the U.S.
August 24, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The social bite of the popular novel fades into a generic chick flick.
August 17, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
'Superbad's' teen raunch isn't what's shocking; it's the love story.
August 10, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Julie Delpy lingers between cultures and must constantly reset her bearings -- an intriguing place to be.
August 3, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Between fireballs and chases, hero-on-the-run Bourne deals with killer angst.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In the new movie, the author Jane Austen is over-fictionalized into one of her heroines.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Vignettes are based on the biblical commandments
July 27, 2007
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Unlike the TV show, the film digs into morality and meaning, giving it a safer feel.
By Carina Chocano
REVIEW:
Catherine Zeta-Jones' career woman reverts to a long-ago formula in 'No Reservations.' It seems she needs a man and a kid to make her complete.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Instead of focusing on the woman who was raped at an MGM sales convention in 1937, filmmaker David Stenn takes center stage.
July 5, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Awash with plot twists, this sequel is too much of what was a good thing.
June 23, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Michael Winterbottom's docudrama examines how three British teens were held without being charged, but fails to look into the other side of the story.
May 5, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A new film by the makers of "Ghost World" skewers the art-school mystique.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Looking back at Fujimori's Shakespearean saga.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
An odd, hard-to-figure little movie.
April 28, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Liz Mermin’s wonderful documentary, “The Beauty Academy of Kabul” sets out to chronicle the opening of a beauty school in Kabul,and finds a forgotten society bravely struggling to live a normal life under terrible circumstances.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Caveh Zahedi reveals more about himself than is warranted with "I Am a Sex Addict."
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani’s quietly stunning documentary, “The Devil’s Miner,” takes us into a remote world where children brave incredibly dangerous circumstances to earn $4 a day.
April 21, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In “American Dreamz,” Hugh Grant portrays a preening, self-loathing “American Idol”-type host and Mandy Moore a sunny contestant with a serious dark streak.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Commentary on rituals and traditions in "Drawing Restraint 9" is more suited for museums than movie screens.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In the Australian film "Somersault," a teen must struggle with her tendency to make adults uneasy and boys cruel.
April 14, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In the practical and humane "La Mujer de Mi Hermano," the family members struggle to lead an ideal life.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A pompous, overwrought and itchingly claustrophobic psychodrama...
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Another in a long line of charming British imports, "Kinky Boots" delivers a message of tolerance and hope.
April 7, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
If it's small and British, it must be an inspirational working-class drama.
March 31, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Sharon Stone rehashes her vampy icepick routine in this glossy, boneheaded sequel.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The Great American Pastime and the Great White Way collide one day in the Don DeLillo's screenplay.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Dark deeds embroil teens of idyllic San Clemente in Rian Johnson's assured debut, "Brick." In the lead, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is gripping.
March 17, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In "Vendetta," from the Wachowski brothers, philosophies abound but aren't all that clear.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Amanda Bynes' goofy cross-dressing prep-schooler is impossible to dislike in this spry update of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."
March 10, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
"Failure" identifies an interesting phenomenon, then ignores it in favor of cheap jokes.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW
February 24, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Crimes in "Tsotsi?" Poverty. Mischance.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Would it be tempting fate to call "Running Scared" the worst movie of the year already?
February 20, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The film sputters as a spoof.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
This date sputters as a spoof.
February 17, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
"Winter Passing" examines a discordant reunion of an estranged daughter and her famous father, but not without a few potholes.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In "Freedomland," a New Jersey child is missing and racial tensions are rising.
February 10, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Michael Winterbottom's film within a film explores "Tristram Shandy's" meandering narrative.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Steve Martin brings his bag of tricks to the role of Inspector Clouseau and winds up making it his own.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
"Curious George’s" long path to the screen ends in a simple, warm tale mostly true to its source.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A charming, bittersweet documentary about a self-proclaimed "cowboy cupid" who specializes in introducing American men to Mexican women.
January 27, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Steven Soderbergh's 'Bubble' tackles the working class from an isolated distance.
January 13, 2006
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Jessica Sander's "After Innocence" documents the lives of men who were wrongly imprisoned.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW
December 28, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
For his cool meditation on morals, the director leaves New York and the neuroses behind.
December 23, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Malick deftly navigates a sensual, vast "New World."
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
"Cuba" opens a time capsule of film art.
December 21, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Tragedy keeps an ex-diplomat and aristocrat from what's right in front of them.
December 12, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Peter Jackson creates a satisfyingly sure-handed update of a movie classic.
December 9, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Gorgeous it may be, but "Memoirs of a Geisha" has been thoroughly Hollywoodized.
December 7, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Disney's adaptation stays true to C.S. Lewis' series.
December 2, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In "Breakfast on Pluto," a drag queen's way of disengaging amid chaos creates a likable yet unengaging character.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW
November 23, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A commodified faux bohemia, the film elicits the same kind of numbing soul-sadness as children's beauty pageants, tiny dogs in expensive boots and Gandhi in Apple ads.
November 18, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Gracefully directed by James Mangold, the Cash biopic is less an uncharted journey than a 2 p.m. bus tour of a music industry legend.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Pulse," Tokyo is a ghost city of lonely people living in tiny, cell-like apartments, so that all their possessions lie within reach, but human interactions require technology.
November 4, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Its best gags visual, it's the plot that's falling in "Chicken."
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Antonioni's stark 1975 classic still fascinates.
October 28, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
At once a frank, funny character study of a not very likable character and a timely philosophical riff on the culture of mediocrity, "The Weather Man" deals in themes usually left to indies.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman have their moments but just miss hitting the potent premise out of the park.
October 21, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
"Shopgirl," about a love affair between a retail clerk and a millionaire, is sure to inspire debate.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Marc Forster's "Stay," with Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling, is hyper-stylized and falls apart at the end.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Low-key charm and an able cast featuring Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning help this tale of love and redemption.
October 7, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
"Shoes" steps around mysteries of sibling bond.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey sweat, shout and get all macho in "Two for the Money," a cheesy romp through the world of high-stakes sports gambling.
September 30, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
"Capote" unveils the Faustian bargain the author made with fame.
By Carina Chocano
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In the wake of a road accident, the good intentions of three privileged people prove purely hypothetical.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Back to the '50s again, regrettably.
September 16, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Part buddy movie, part contemporary folk tale, a hit novel comes to the screen with humor and wit.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Biker chick befriends Miss Frilly in a dazzling Japanese mix of heart, humor, plot oddities and visual tricks.
September 2, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A spoof of romantic comedies, "The Baxter" stars the forgettable character who loses the girl to the dashing hero.
August 26, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Books stimulate change in a personal film set during China's sweeping Cultural Revolution.
August 19, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Steve Carell's sensitive guy is real, in a funny way.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Style flies the coop in Disney's lifeless computer animated feature.
August 12, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Marcos Siega's film satirizes school, show biz and more — but it doesn't do it well.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Blood, sweat and fear in the Pacific.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Suspenseful and atmospheric, the tightly plotted tale starring Kate Hudson leads to an unexpected ending.
August 5, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Bill Murray's aging cad has trouble crossing the ironic distance.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Director Wong Kar-Wai presents some affairs to remember.
August 3, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Meet the estranged-in-law in director Phil Morrison's deceptively simple, deeply resonant film.
July 29, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In its activist characters, this German film sheds a clear light on the uneasy relationship between baby boomers and their children.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In this documentary, dozens of comedians dissect an obscene vaudeville joke until, well, it's really not all that funny anymore.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Forget the dogs, viewers must love endless clichés to endure this by-the-numbers romantic comedy.
July 22, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The original film's delinquent heart still beats in the wild and woolly remake.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Glean what you will from Gus Van Sant's latest, focusing on a Kurt Cobain-like figure.
July 15, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn make a charming couple in a lively comedy with sex, romance and free drinks.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Writer-director Don Roos presents a sassy slice of life.
June 24, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The suburban-set TV series takes a Hollywood detour.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Optimistic, humanistic and quirky, this oddball paean to hope is about lonely people struggling to connect however they can.
June 17, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Director Chris Terrio spends a shallow 24 hours in New York. VIDEO REVIEW
By Carina Chocano and Kevin Thomas
CAPSULE MOVIE REVIEWS
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
François Ozon sets up the film like a mystery about what happened to a couple's love.
June 10, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Writer-director Robert Rodriguez sees life through 3-D glasses.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Bus driver Kramden goes for a joyless ride.
June 3, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
This tender look at a woman's entry into adulthood, is humorous and stealthily affecting.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Documentary looks at Paul Green, who teaches youngsters in Philadelphia how to be rock stars. VIDEO REVIEW
June 1, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Based on the successful book series aimed at 'tweens, this drama tugs relentlessly at the heartstrings but has its share of charms.
May 27, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Adam Sandler and Chris Rock star in a cleaned-up remake of a grittier, and better, film. VIDEO REVIEW
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Writer-director Alice Wu puts a fresh spin on an old topic.
May 20, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Characters blur line between selfish and selfless.
May 13, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
It's hard not to side with Jane Fonda's harpy, considering what she's up against.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Andy Garcia plays the Italian painter in Mick Davis' film.
By Carina Chocano
CAPSULE REVIEWS
May 6, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Racists get equal opportunities to hate in this awkward drama.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In this French film, a husband loves his wife — and his mistress too.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Martin Short's parody of the self-parodying celebrity interviewer is best at its looniest.
April 22, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet update the rom-com.
April 15, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Todd Solondz spells doom in eight ways.
April 8, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Mixing romance with baseball, the Farrellys display winning ways.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Renowned directors have varying levels of success in an at-times-cryptic film trio.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
There is wit and action in this globalist entertainment from Stephen Chow. Its cartoonish violence notwithstanding, it mocks cinematic love songs to bad guys.
April 1, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Gross-outs and gleeful sadism dominate as this adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novels stays too true to its roots.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
He feels slighted and vows to bring her down in a disappointing examination of class differences.
March 25, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
This comedy is the rare teen spoof that works, thanks to the sweet love story at its center.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
From Korea comes a dream of deadly drama.
March 23, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In Woody Allen's latest film, the writer-director seems unable to see the line between the in- and out-crowds.
March 11, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Mike Binder's comedy drama offers seduction and humor — suburban style.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The animated tale has flashes of brilliance but seems assembled from cultural flotsam.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEWS
March 4, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEWS
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Set in a Scottish port city, this working-class heartwarmer is infused with tender family feeling.
February 27, 2005
By Carina Chocano
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:
No, there's no science to the Oscars. But every year, a world of fans wills it to be otherwise.
February 25, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Jan Hrebejk's wry view of a group of locals and immigrants in post-Soviet Prague is buoyed by real, flawed characters and a jolly sense of the absurd.
February 18, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
When superpowers collide, in this case God and Satan, John Constantine comes to the rescue.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Kurdish children brave the contradictions of war-torn Iraq in this drama from Iranian Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi.
February 11, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A new documentary probes the cultural shock waves set in motion by the 1972 porno classic.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
This Will Smith comedy is a real charmer.
February 4, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Here's a reminder to scratch this unrealistic comedy off the calendar.
January 21, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Love, fate and finality keep three couples adrift through time and space in tales told in the spirit of Japanese Bunraku puppetry.
January 14, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Who said supergirls just wanna have fun?
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
This true story uses a familiar playbook.
January 7, 2005
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
As static from the dead intrudes on a yuppie fantasy, the plot isn't well guided by voices.
December 30, 2004
MOVIES:
Hollywood remakes of old and foreign films just keep on coming. Are there any that make you want to forget the original?
December 29, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Dark and eerily resonant, Niels Mueller's film crawls under your skin and amps up the agitation until you want to jump out of it.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A "Love Song" of books and booze.
December 22, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Spectacle meets spector in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical blockbuster.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
One big, happy family? Hah!
December 17, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Witty and sharp, the story of a quadriplegic's fight for the right to assisted suicide explores what it means to be alive.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Kevin Spacey's biopic doesn't have much depth about Bobby Darin's tumultuous life.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Pity those poor orphans. The film looks richly eerie, but beneath the surface there's no sense of dread.
December 10, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Bill Murray and director Wes Anderson give permission to come aboard an adventure.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Pedro Almodóvar offers pessimistic insight into Spanish culture in his latest film. In this chronicle of misbehavior, nearly all are guilty.
November 26, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
This fairy tale serves up a twisting story with imagery strange and beautiful amid the horror of WWI.
November 24, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In this Tim Allen-Jamie Lee Curtis comedy, tradition is threatened by an empty-nest suburban couple who — gasp — plan a holiday cruise.
November 19, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The Bruckheimer bombast knocks this hunt for loot off course.
November 18, 2004
MOVIES:
In making the jump from TV to movie critic, do you find yourself watching one or the other medium differently?
November 12, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
One man's escape from the darkness of adulthood.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The movie is best when it's gleefully absurd (fountain brawl, anyone?), but Zellweger's singleton really needs to buck up.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Behind the cameras, performance anxiety besets the stage.
November 5, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The toxic womanizer turns cute and cuddly in a "Sex and the City"-fied remake.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Anthony LaPaglia would be charming, except that he's a jerk.
October 29, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A terrifying accident tosses characters into a tense psychological stew.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
The action is plenty grisly, but its serial killer's motivations are generally too dull.
October 22, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
It's all good in the world of Mike Leigh's latest film.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Laura Linney and Topher Grace have an affair to remember.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A time-warped indie exercise made for "the price of a used car," it's tough to follow but too compelling to quit on.
October 15, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Claire Danes and Billy Crudup are in love in a time before "issues."
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
A comedy about the reunion of a messed-up family, assembles all the right elements but can't quite put them all together.
October 8, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
Jordan Roberts' film tries to take four generations of fathers and sons on a road trip of discovery, but it sputters and fails to get where it could have.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
An aimless workplace satire, this comedy winds up making us sympathize with the smarmy title character.
October 6, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
This comedy, which stars Jimmy Fallon and wastes Queen Latifah, never finds its way.
October 1, 2004
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
In David O. Russell's weird but poignant world, style, substance, superstores and existential detectives collide.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
It sends subtlety up in smoke, but the homage to firefighters has strong acting.
By Carina Chocano
MOVIE REVIEW:
This rock doc digs deeper into battle of the bands.
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